China Coal Energy (OTCMKTS:CCOZY – Get Free Report) and Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC – Get Free Report) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for China Coal Energy and Marathon Petroleum, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| China Coal Energy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4.00 |
| Marathon Petroleum | 0 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 2.71 |
Marathon Petroleum has a consensus price target of $322.44, suggesting a potential downside of 17.29%. Given Marathon Petroleum’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Marathon Petroleum is more favorable than China Coal Energy.
Dividends
Risk and Volatility
China Coal Energy has a beta of -0.31, indicating that its share price is 131% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marathon Petroleum has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares China Coal Energy and Marathon Petroleum’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| China Coal Energy | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Marathon Petroleum | 5.48% | 31.96% | 8.88% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
76.8% of Marathon Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Marathon Petroleum shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares China Coal Energy and Marathon Petroleum”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| China Coal Energy | $20.59 billion | 0.95 | $2.02 billion | $3.98 | 7.43 |
| Marathon Petroleum | $135.22 billion | 0.84 | $4.05 billion | $29.09 | 13.40 |
Marathon Petroleum has higher revenue and earnings than China Coal Energy. China Coal Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marathon Petroleum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Marathon Petroleum beats China Coal Energy on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
About China Coal Energy
China Coal Energy Company Limited primarily engages in the coal production and trading and coal chemical businesses in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company offers polyolefin, methanol, urea, and other coal chemical products. It is also involved in the coal mining equipment manufacturing, pithead power generation, and other activities. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Beijing, the People's Republic of China. China Coal Energy Company Limited operates as a subsidiary of China National Coal Group Co., Ltd.
About Marathon Petroleum
Marathon Petroleum Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated downstream energy company primarily in the United States. The company operates through Refining & Marketing, and Midstream segments. The Refining & Marketing segment refines crude oil and other feedstocks at its refineries in the Gulf Coast, Mid-Continent, and West Coast regions of the United States; and purchases refined products and ethanol for resale and distributes refined products, including renewable diesel, through transportation, storage, distribution, and marketing services. Its refined products include transportation fuels, such as reformulated gasolines and blend-grade gasolines; heavy fuel oil; and asphalt. This segment also manufactures propane and petrochemicals. It sells refined products to wholesale marketing customers in the United States and internationally, buyers on the spot market, and independent entrepreneurs who operate primarily Marathon branded outlets, as well as through long-term fuel supply contracts to direct dealer locations primarily under the ARCO brand. The Midstream segment transports, stores, distributes, and markets crude oil and refined products through refining logistics assets, pipelines, terminals, towboats, and barges; gathers, processes, and transports natural gas; and gathers, transports, fractionates, stores, and markets natural gas liquids. Marathon Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Findlay, Ohio.
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